No more hypocrisy
Published: October 27 2007 03:00 | Last updated: October 27 2007 03:00
From Mr Jerry Harris.
Sir, Why all the fuss over the lack of democracy in Russia and China? Gideon Rachman (October 23) was the latest to decry this supposed "challenge to the west". Common thinking asserts that capitalism will give rise to middle-class democracy. Yet the fascist regimes of Europe were capitalist. And the US supported dozens of authoritarian capitalist governments among developing nations. So let us deal with the world as it is and drop the hypocritical surprise.
Jerry Harris,
Secretary, Global Studies Association,
Chicago, IL 60622, US
Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2007
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